rock-and-roll

The finest rock-and-roll biographies are defined by their capacity for losing the reader inside the music.

“I remember right before ‘El Camino’ thinking this might be too rock-and-roll for our base,” Carney says, “but to me the change was a sign we weren’t phoning it in.”

“It was 24 hours a day of worrying, trying to keep the creeps away. Fame and money in rock-and-roll — it’s all a very dangerous area to live in.”

They could all coexist in the same swirl of chaos — belief over logic, loyalty over evidence, vibes over value — what Rush Limbaugh used to call a “phony-baloney plastic banana good-time rock-and-roll” kind of thing.

The rock-and-roll entrance music for speakers and the “Let’s Make Britain Great” baseball caps on show are reminiscent of a Donald Trump rally.